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Ann Doss Helms and Tony Pugh, Charlotte Observer

North Carolina’s $10B Medicaid Challenge: Pay For Other States Or Take Federal Money?

By Ann Doss Helms and Tony Pugh, Charlotte Observer September 3, 2014 KFF Health News Original

State taxpayers could spend more than $10 billion by 2022 to provide medical coverage for low-income residents of other states while getting nothing in return.

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